Re: Mysterious lockups in 2.2.9.

Robert Schiele (rschiele@uni-mannheim.de)
Mon, 24 May 1999 19:49:29 +0200

Brian Schau wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Am I the only one who has experienced lockups in 2.2.9?
>
> Setup ....
>
> /proc/cpuinfo:
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 6
> model : 5
> model name : Pentium II (Deschutes)
> stepping : 2
> cpu MHz : 300.686213
> cache size : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 mmx osfxsr
> bogomips : 299.83
>
> /proc/meminfo:
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 131579904 72237056 59342848 33071104 4665344 47235072
> Swap: 139788288 0 139788288
> MemTotal: 128496 kB
> MemFree: 57952 kB
> MemShared: 32296 kB
> Buffers: 4556 kB
> Cached: 46128 kB
> SwapTotal: 136512 kB
> SwapFree: 136512 kB
>
> /proc/scsi/scsi:
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
> Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0e
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
> Vendor: QUANTUM Model: VIKING II 9.1WSE Rev: 5520
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> Scsihost is a Initio 9100UW.
>
> Description. When in X/Icewm (I haven't been out of X much lately ;o)
> the machine sometimes locks, dead solid. No response whatsoever - the
> clock in icewm freezes ;o)
> Magic sysrq key doesn't work either. Nothing suspicious in the
> logfiles.
>
> A plain'n simple lockup.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Brian
>

Experienced the same problems with early 2.2 kernels. But with the later
2.2 kernels the problem never occured for me.

The data of my system is (hope this helps someone):

/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 5
model name : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 333.273839
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx osfxsr
bogomips : 332.60

/proc/meminfo:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 130760704 127582208 3178496 31088640 5324800 22052864
Swap: 405311488 72970240 332341248
MemTotal: 127696 kB
MemFree: 3104 kB
MemShared: 30360 kB
Buffers: 5200 kB
Cached: 21536 kB
SwapTotal: 395812 kB
SwapFree: 324552 kB

/proc/scsi/scsi:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: MICROP Model: 3391WS Rev: X502
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39140W Rev: 1281
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
Vendor: HP Model: C2520A Rev: 3503
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: PIONEER Model: CD-ROM DR-U12X Rev: 1.06
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
Vendor: RICOH Model: MP6200S Rev: 2.40
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Scsihost is an Adaptec 2940UW

Robert

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